The Toronto Group is a collaboration between graduate students at Osgoode Hall Law School and the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. Our upcoming 2019 event will be our 12th conference. The Toronto Group aims to create a forum for graduate students and early career academics to disseminate their research and engage with a broad international community of scholars. Our areas of focus include legal, social and political theory; public and private international law; and constitutional law and politics. Every year, we hold a major conference in Toronto, Ontario.

On behalf of the members of the Belmont Criminal Law Journal, we write to inform you of an upcoming symposium regarding “White Collar Crime in the 21st Century: When Corporations and Individuals Collide.” This year’s symposium will consider, among other things, the tensions that can develop between the interests of a corporation and the interests of an individual during a white collar criminal investigation and how these conflicts impact the representation of each party.

Overview: The University of Michigan Law School invites junior scholars to attend the 5th Annual Junior Scholars Conference, which will be held on April 26-27, 2019 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The conference provides junior scholars with a platform to present and discuss their work with peers, and to receive detailed feedback from senior members of the Michigan Law faculty. The Conference aims to promote fruitful collaboration between participants and to encourage their integration into a community of legal scholars.

It is believed that law acts as a tool for social transformation. In today’s world, most aspects of
human behaviour are regulated by legal rules and principles. From policies affecting the poor
to regulating economic and political agendas between powerful nations, law plays an important
role in shaping the future for coming generations. However, in the context of changing sociopolitical
scenarios around the world, there is a need to re-evaluate our understanding of

The University of Exeter invites papers for the upcoming conference Legal Resilience in an Era of Hybrid Threats April 8-10, 2019.

Proposals addressing the following questions and themes are particularly welcome, as are inter-disciplinary, theoretical and case-study based approaches:

• What is legal resilience? What is its potential as an analytical concept and as a policy framework? What are its potential shortcomings? What are the key elements of legal resilience and what does it mean for a legal system to be resilient? How do we measure legal resilience?